{"id":14624,"date":"2024-11-20T20:47:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=14624"},"modified":"2024-11-20T20:47:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T20:47:18","slug":"taylor-swift-opens-toronto-concert-with-land-acknowledgment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=14624","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Opens Toronto Concert With Land Acknowledgment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Swift kicked off her Toronto concert Thursday night with a \u201cland acknowledgment\u201d a common practice among left-wing activists who believe they live on \u201cstolen land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe acknowledge that we are performing today at Rogers Centre, located on Treaty 13 lands,\u201d read a graphic projected on stage before Swift\u2019s performance. \u201cWe acknowledge the First Nations, Inuit, and Metis peoples whose original and treaty territories we stand upon.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Taylor Swift put out a Native American land acknowledgment at her concert tonight. She has single handedly solved injustice. You go girl \u270a\ud83c\udfff <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q95fTDtf8O\">pic.twitter.com\/q95fTDtf8O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cam (@cam0795) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cam0795\/status\/1857214353562357988?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Treaty 13 refers to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mncfn.ca\/the-toronto-purchase-treaty-no-13-1805\/\">Toronto Purchase of 1805,<\/a>\u00a0in which the British government purchased the land that is now Toronto from the Mississauga tribe. Swift has become increasingly political in recent years,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dnc-targets-young-voters-for-kamala-with-taylor-swift-themed-snapchat-filter\">endorsing<\/a>\u00a0Vice President Kamala Harris and praising Minnesota Governor Tim Walz for being pro-abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Once a feature of far-left organizations, land acknowledgment have become popular among liberals in recent years. The 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/dnc-opens-land-acknowledgment-forcibly-removed-tribal-nation\">opened<\/a>\u00a0with a statement that the convention was taking place on land where a Native American tribe had been \u201cforcibly removed\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-school-districts-across-the-country-say-america-was-built-on-stolen-land\">reported<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year that over 100 public school districts in the United States have \u201cland acknowledgement statements,\u201d many of which say the United States was built on \u201cstolen land\u201d and committed genocide.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Taylor Swift kicked off her Toronto concert Thursday night with a \u201cland acknowledgment\u201d a common practice among left-wing activists who believe they live on \u201cstolen land.\u201d \u201cWe acknowledge &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14626,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624\/revisions\/14626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}